To fund my second year in graduate school at UW-Madison, I applied for several different teaching assistantships. One was to teach...

I am a Bible-believing creationist Christian. I am also an environmentalist and an organic farmer. I see no conflict between the two. But...

All of the historical narratives that I’ve discussed so far have one thing in common—they are secular. They focus almost exclusively on...

I was a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2020 to 2022—during some of the most tumultuous years politically in...

There’s one more major narrative about agricultural history that I haven’t mentioned yet—not because it isn’t important, but because it’s...

Organic farming has always questioned the progressive narrative of history. It has to. After all, if the progressive narrative is true,...

History is storytelling, and there are different types of narratives that can be used to frame a historical event. Last week, I...

One of the most important things I learned in graduate school was that history is storytelling—and that there are different ways to tell...

When I first started writing about the past, I had lofty ideals. My goal was simple—to find the truth and tell it. I often wished that it...

One stereotype of the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s was that young people didn’t listen to—or trust—anyone over thirty. That may...

As I write this, the wild pin cherry trees are just finishing blooming, white petals drifting down to the ground in a fragrant snow. The...

Note: Everything in this post is true, but I have omitted the name of the professor and the research institution to protect everyone...

Note: Everything in this post is true, but I have omitted the name of the professor and the research institution to protect everyone...

Note: Everything in this post is true, but I have omitted the name of the professor and the research institution to protect everyone...

I loved science when I was a kid—especially biology. I loved learning more about nature, going out in the woods to look at plants and...

Six years after my failed pot fertility experiment at OSU, it happened again. The instructor for my Soil Microbiology class at the...

Fresh out of my first year of agronomy classes, I was excited to do my first internship at an organically managed CSA. My job at the...

I’ll admit it. My first attempt at designing an “organic” fertility experiment was a complete failure. When I started my forages class at...

If, like me, you get emails from nonprofit organizations, your inbox is probably filling up this week with calls for year-end giving. But...

This year, we had a wonderful bumper crop of almost every vegetable in our garden. For months, our hallway and entryway were full of...